NASA lunar orbiter pictures Chinese space probe on far side of the moon

NASA has shared the first photos taken of China's Chang'e-6 space probe captured on the far side of the moon.

The images of China's sample return spacecraft were captured by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera (LROC) on June 7. Chang'e-6 landed on the moon on June 1 and when the LROC passed over the site about a week later, it acquired an image showing the lander on the rim of a 55-yard crater on the moon's surface, the agency said.

The LROC team said it computed the landing site coordinates at about 42 degrees south latitude, 206 degrees east longitude, at an elevation of about minus 3.27 miles. 

Images released by NASA and Arizona State University show the landing site situated near the southern edge of the Apollo basin on the lunar far side. 

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